Dr. Caryn Heldt graduated from Michigan Technological University in 2001 with a B.S. in Chemistry and Chemical Engineering. She worked for BASF for two years before joining the Carbonell Lab at North Carolina State University. She graduated with her Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering in 2008. Dr. Heldt completed a postdoc with Georges Belfort at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in 2010 before joining the faculty at Michigan Tech.